Valve.



T. E. MURRAY.

VALVE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.29. Hi6.

Patented May 8, 1917.

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VALVE.

specification of Letters Pat Patented May Application filed December 25, 291%. Serial No. 139,562?

- up or pressed into form and united where necessary by electrically welded joints.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a vertical section of my valve on the line so, of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section On the line y, 3/ oi Fig. 1.

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A and B are the ends of the ducts between which the valvechamber is placed. Y C is the valve chamber having tubular projections D oppositely disposed to receive said duct ends, which ends may be electricall welded in said projections. Said chamber has a tubular projection 15, through which passes the threaded valve stem l3. the upper part of said projection E is the usual stuffing-box or the valve stem, (not shown), and at the upper end oi the said stem is the hand wheel Gr, by turning which the threaded stem is rotated to raise and lower the valve.

Fitting in, projections l) of valve chamber C registering with the ends or" ducts A, B are ring H which are internally shouldered at l. The inner portions 5 of the rings H beyond the are internally shoulders l' threaded and upwardly inclined." v

K is the valve seat, here of inverted j frusto-conical shape, having on opposite sides tubular downwardly inclined projections L, M which surround the ports in the wall of said seat and are externally threaded to enter the threaded portions of rings H.

The valve comprises a solid core, here a nut N, or": substantially the shape shown, through which passes the threaded stem F.

lnclosing the nut N is a steel casing 0 formed in two longitudinal half sections having flanges extending over the top and under the bottom of the nut hl. lnclosing the nut and casing is the shell 1?, also formed in two longitudinal halt sections, having flanges extending over the flanges on casing O. The shell I? is frusto-conical in shape to fit'inthe frusto-conieal seat K when the valve in closed position, as shown in Fig. 1.

The object of making the shell P in sections is to permit of ready removal of these parts when worn and the substitution of new and similar parts. lFhe steel casing 0, also formed in half sections, is on its exterior made. convex so as to bear against the middle portions of the shell sections, and so to exert spring pressure on said shell sections to force them outwardly and into close contact with the seat l lnorder to guide the valve in its verti cal movement, I provide on the inner side of chamber project-ion E oppositely disposed pairs of vertical ribs Q, Q and R, B, so that between the members of each pair there is a vertical recess. @n the half sections of valve shell P, 1 form ribs S, S and T, T-

the ribs S, S entering the recess between ribs ll, R and the ribs T, 'l entering the recess between ribs Q,

i is to be particularly noted that all parts of this valve and its seat are formed of struck up sheet metal. The chamber C is formed of two sections longitudinally .divided on the line :0, r and electrically welded together at their edges. The shouldered and threaded rings H are simply stamped or struck up. The valve seat K is made in two half sections, also struck up or stamped.

l claim:

1. A valve chambena tubular valve seat having ports in its ,wall, and a valve; the said valve comprising" a stem, a core thereon, an expansible shell inclosing said core and bearing against said seat, and resilient means interposed between said core and said shell or expanding said shell to force it against said seat.

2 A valve chamber, oppositely disposed ducts communicating with said chamber, a tubular valve seat in said chamber having ports in its wall, tubular externally-thread ed projections on said seat surrounding said ports,,a valve in said seat, means for moving said valve to open and close said ports, and internally threaded rings secured in said chamber, receiving said. threaded projections and registering with the ends of said ducts.

3. A. valve chamber, oppositely disposed ducts communicating with said chamber, a tubular valve seat said chamber having 7 ports in its wall, tubular externally thread- 'ed projections on said seat surrounding said ports, a valve in said seat, guide grooves on the inner periphery of said chamber wall,

ribs on said valve entering said grooves, means for moving sald valve to open and "close said ports, and internally threaded rings secured in said chamber, receiving said threaded pro ections with'the ends of said ducts.

4. A'valve chamber, a tubular valve seat and registering therein in inverted frusto-conical form having ports in its wall, a valve in said seat, andmeansn for movlng'sald valve to open and close said ports; the said valve compris a core, a shell formed of two semi-' in tu ular half sections inclosing said core and having flanges extending'abo've and below said core, and means interposed between said core and said shell sections for resiliently expanding; saidsectlons.

5. A valvechainber of sheet metal formed a in two half sections electrically welded at their-meeting edge'sand having oppositely disposed tubular projections for receiving the ends of ducts, a tubular valve seat of sheet metal in said chamber havingoppositely disposed ports and formed in two valve to open and close said ports.

6. A valve chamber, a tubular valve seat therein in inverted frusto conical form having ports in its wall, a valve in said seat, and means formoving said valve to open and close said ports; the said valve com-.

prising a core, a resilient casing formed of two semi-tubular half sections inclosing said core and having flanges extending above and below said core, and a shell formed of two semi-tubular half sections inclosing said casing and having flanges extending over said casing flange In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two' witnesses. I

THOMAS MURRAY, Witnesses:

GERTRUDE T. PoRTER, MAY '1. 'M GARRY. 

